Excerpt from Nikki Ummel's homage to Diane Seuss in Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V, out last April (2025).
"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v
Quotation from Isabella Streffen's homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse, published in Verse of April's Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V.
"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...
Lénaïg Cariou reading on April 18, 2026 with Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series
On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!
This month featuring @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @desperatelit.bsky.social @verseofapril.bsky.social @valeriavescina.bsky.social @offassignment.bsky.social & more
Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series hosts Mia You on March 14, 2026, at Rerenga Wines
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
An excerpt from Jason Stoneking's handwritten portrait of Richard Dailey for Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V.
"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...
Submissions Open for Translations of Living Poets' Work - Verse of April
Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions
(Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)
Verse of April Submissions Open for Poets-on-Poets Interviews and Poets-on-Poets Essays.
Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions
(Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)
Here is the fourth of my Text Embodiments series, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was such a pleasure to collaborate with dancer Marie Grillo 🤩, and thanks as always to Leslie McAllister for the 🎥🙏 #poetry #dance #ballet youtu.be/CSfPI-IFgfA
Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series description.
Mnemosynes — ❤️🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.
Poster for Paris Heretics 5-year anniversary party at Point Éphémère December 16, 2025. Designed by Lucas Lecacheur.
Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)
Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️
A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi.
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!
On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
Excerpt from nat raum's homage poem to Bleah Patterson
"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum
you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today!
I.i am
A. writing
1. an ars poetica
i. in which i bury you,
ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself,
2. a farewell.
https://www.havehashad.com/t727h
PARIS: Next Tuesday, with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom; Laura Mullen and Stéphanie Chaillou; Sandra Mousssempès, Amanda Murphy, and myself. Hosted by Ivy Writers and The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. Would be nice to see you there.
This is the first in my new series, Text Embodiments, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was a privilege to collaborate with Sylvaine Soldano of liebemdance.com 💝
Thank you Leslie McAllister for 🎥+✂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_D...
Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
The last Mnemosynes reading of the 2024-2025 year with gorgeous poems from Rhoni Blankenhorn and Lindsay Turner. Thank you, dear poets, for the pleasure and real questioning of your verse. It has been an honor to share these moments with you all this season. See you soon in September. GROSSES BISES.
You can find more about her window and text translation of Giraudon, including audio recordings of the original and the found poem as read by Alison, in her full entry: www.verseofapril.com/alisongrace-...
Of her homage to Liliane Giraudon, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social writes, "These are the fragments I first envisioned painting onto glass. I eventually decided to reduce the amount of text inside the window itself, but the original selection has since coalesced into a found poem."
Hand fans, orange wine, backless chairs, legs, « portes béantes », car-gripping hands of curious children, peal of motor scooter, bus, rumble of Pride, Wet Hot European Summer, « negative capability » of the floor, as our guest named it, & speaking of her, Catherine Barnett. 🩵
We are expecting a good turn-out for this event, so please try to arrive on time to secure a place. It might also be a good idea to bring a hand fan! Chilled wine will be for sale by the glass at the store.
NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social)
"'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!'
The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture
if they were still here? How could someone
with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?"
stonecirclereview.com/practice-run/
sterling-elizabeth, a fat white trans woman with a mustache and a very short haircut and glasses, smiles at the camera. she’s wearing a grey patterned jacket, has glasses and lots of facial piercings
Author’s Note This sonnet is perhaps the unlikeliest of poems for me. When I walked in to see Deadpool & Wolverine, I told my friend there was no way I would be able to make a poem out of it. In reflection, though, I realized that at every step of my transition, Marvel movies have been an exception to the gendered rules I gave myself about which films I could watch. My understanding of them has still changed alongside my understanding of myself, and that made the Deadpool movies ripe material with which to trace my own journey in an earlier draft of this poem. In revision, I shifted away from touching the Deadpool movies so explicitly and leaned into my own emotional landscape in my relationship with film; the sonnet seemed an appropriate form to strain against in a poem about breaking my own rigid, gendered ideas about something I love.
Today my poem “transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)” is poem of the week at The Missouri Review!!!
missourireview.com/arcadia/
Mnemosynes hosts American poet Catherine Barnett on June 28th from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines in Paris' 10th arrondissement.
Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!
